Read article 'Microwaves map the early universe in detail…'
The eagerly awaited first full-sky map from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has been released by NASA. The satellite, which has been observing the cosmic microwave background radiation...
Read article 'LHC magnets pass two milestones'
The new year at CERN has seen good news for two types of magnet that will be essential to focusing beams in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Read article 'LCLS gets funding as TESLA wins support'
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), which passed the US Department of Energy's "Critical Decision 1" process in October 2002, has been allo...
Read article 'Novel CLIC accelerating structure achieves 195 MV/m'
The nominal parameters for the compact linear collider (CLIC) foresee acceleration of the electron and positron bunches to an energy of 1.5 TeV by 30 GHz normal-conducting accelerating structures oper...
Read article 'CERN hosts first meeting of Quarkonium Working Group'
The first workshop of the recently founded Quarkonium Working Group (QWG) took place at CERN on 8-10 November 2002, nearly 30 years after the observation of charmonium - the first of the heavy quarkon...
Read article 'KamLAND experiment discovers that reactor antineutrinos ‘disappear’'
The first results from six months of data-taking by the KamLAND experiment in Japan indicate that electron antineutrinos from distant nuclear reactors are "disappearing" on their way to the detector.
Read article 'Aerogel sees the light for LHCb detector'
Particle identification is a fundamental requirement for experiments such as LHCb that are dedicated to the study of B physics.
Read article 'Silicon photomultiplier demonstrates its capabilities'
A team from the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute together with Pulsar Enterprise in Moscow have developed a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), which promises a wide range of applications.
Read article 'JACoW accelerates publication of electronic conference proceedings'
The Joint Accelerator Conferences Website, (JACoW) is a website located at CERN with a mirror site at KEK, where the proceedings of accelerator conferences are published.
Read article 'New paperless journal echoes the spirit of JHEP'
In collaboration with Institute of Physics Publishing, the International School for Advanced Studies has launched the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.
